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[Chicken Rustler]

 

[Chicken Rustler]

How many peeps chooks look like this? LOL

Mine aren't that dry!!! lol

 

[Chicken Rustler]

This came from a Book I have. I think the 'chapter' is called Hebrews or something.

Today I will strengthen every part of me that is weak and weary.
I will lay down every thing that weighs me down or holds me back.
I will lift my eyes where they belong and I will run with endurance and joy the race that is set before me.

Amazing the thoughts that horse is having! Love it.

 

[Mumsy]

Your grey Silkie is really a Porcelain Silkie. She looks just like my Silkie, that I bought from Margie last year. I still think that Margie has the prettiest Porcelain Silkies I have yet to see. If the Silkie had been a flat grey, then for some unknown reason it would be called a blue. I will say that I have never understood why that is so. I may just have to Google the question, and find out the answer.

Well...Margie told me they were both Greys and spent some time with me explaining how to breed them. I have no reason to doubt her.

I've been doing quite a bit of image research on BYC since bringing them home. This is what I found: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/508101/porcelain-silkie-cockerel-catdance-silkies
My chicks have none of that buff coloring at all.
I also found this thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/478550/what-does-a-grey-silkie-look-like/10

Scrolling down to images of Donna McCormick's cockerels you will see coloring of her Greys that resemble my chicks.
My little babies are only 3 1/2 months old and the feathering will change but there still is no buff porcelain feathers in either of them.


I would have purchased them no matter what the color. I am simply in love with these two little sweeties.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote:
Hrm. I had assumed it was black, because it sure looks black to me. I guess I ought to look at silkie colors online. Not that it matters really, but I'd like to get it right!

What colors do the under fluff colors correspond with?

Jennifer
Some blues are so dark that the only way to tell if they are blue or black is to breed them with a black and see what colors you get. Should get %100 black if both are true black.
Blues will have light grey under fluff. A good black will be dark all the way down the shaft. Maybe not black black, but dark. I am pretty sure she only brought blues and splashes though. I spent a lot of time hanging out with her and her husband over the weekend and I am pretty sure that is what she said.

I brought one of her blues home too. She is almost as dark as the black roo I put her with. Her behind is dark grey though when they both turn around. That is almost the only way I can tell.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Quote: Yes! Of course it's a translation. LOL. Seriously though, a lot of people don't realize this but horses are very spiritual beings. The are used a lot for healing. Look up EAP (Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. ) and Eagala. Horses react differently to people who are not congruent than those that are. They are a very useful tool.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

OK, I think I am going to go do speed harvesting while it is not raining. I actually see SUNLIGHT! I'm outta here. See ya peeps.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I just love my new baby, Farmin Momma's little Belgian!  She's the most darling thing and I think my diabetes gets worse every time I see her because she's so sweet! 


We named her Marmalade.

You and me both.


Belgians/ Barbu d'Anvers are the most charming little birds, sweet-tempered and funny to watch and so little OMG.


If you haven't checked out the thread in the Breeds and Showing section, you should- there was a picture posted last night to answer my question about perches, and... it's just so.. I dunno, here go look for yourself, isn't that just darling?

That's adorable!

Actually, Marmalade is the nicest Belgian I've ever met (I've only met d'Anvers).  My other five are a bit nutty.  I got them from a WSU student who was breeding them; I think they were a bit less than two months old.  I could never get them to be nearly as friendly as my standard birds.  They are almost afraid of their own shadows but will bully whoever will run from them.  They charge at the little Douglas squirrels they find eating fallen seed.  I can only tell one bird apart from the rest because she's developed frosted tail feather tips.  Her name is Peanut because I caught her in the garage eating the single packing peanut that was floating around.  She's the only one I can catch and hold.  They all try to sleep in a tree outside the coop and it drives me nuts.  As a group, I call them the Teeny Ones.  Marmalade will remain a separate entity, I think.

I suspect you and I got our birds from the same young woman in Centralia?

I learned something from the way Elvis was housed while he was growing up, and from Snotty Cockerel, who inherited his house (and who is gorgeous, and who I would keep as yard art if I were not over-birded): raising birds where they are close to you as you go about your daily activities, in narrow pens so they're always close to you, seems to make them tamer than they'd otherwise be. The young ladies are still in the laundry room, which is also my back entry (and the only air-lock style entry I have, so it's the one that gets used most in bad weather) and will, soon, move out to the back porch.

I'm trying to handle them more than I did the EEs, for instance, but I'm sort of over-booked, still, since DH is in very bad shape (question mark is not a good shape) and I'm getting stuck with stuff that was never my job, like taking out garbage.

 

[pips&peeps]

Yes! Of course it's a translation. LOL. Seriously though, a lot of people don't realize this but horses are very spiritual beings. The are used a lot for healing. Look up EAP (Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. ) and Eagala. Horses react differently to people who are not congruent than those that are. They are a very useful tool.

Must be why Scottie takes such good care of me.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

 I don't trust anyone. Besides, I think when I log in some kind of alarm must go off at BYC headquarters. Even at this hour, I'm usually the only one logged in but their are ALWAYS 'guests'. I think I'm being stalked! LOL

There are lurkers who have less than honourable intentions.

It has happened to me.  I am fighting to keep my chickens and my neighbor has been feeding the prosecutor stuff from the forum that I have posted.
But the best was when someone posted that they were going to a sheep farm to buy wool. That farm has the same last name as mine.  Two days later, the ordinance officer shows up with a complaint that I have sheep in the backyard.

People really need to remember that this forum is not private by any stretch of the imagination. Even before I signed on here, BYC posts were very often my first google hit for chicken-related search terms. Google has an algorhythm which guesses the results you want according to other searches you've made, so the more you come here the more you'll see BYC results, but the first time I searched for Silver Laced Wyandottes, I got a result from the Wyandotte thread that had pictures from the Foleys of roosters they had for sale, including a BLRW, and I went a little crazy over them, not knowing that Foley's BLRWs are not representative of a lot of what's out there.

But I digress (as usual, is anyone surprised?): BYC is a Big Deal on the Internet, and thus somewhere we need to be on our company manners. It is also a private enterprise, which means the owners make the rules: freedom of speech is freedom from government censorship; it does not mean freedom to say anything you want anywhere you want without response or consequences.

Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but these are lessons I've learned the hard way after over twenty years online, and what small wisdom I've scraped together I try to pss on to save others scars.